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My Google Pixel 2 becomes a night vision device. With the Night Sight mode, you can take pictures in the dark without a tripod. Amazing. This is a photo of a Google Camera APK file I modified in Lightroom. Soon Google Night Sight is officially available. That's very pleasing!
A few of the skyscrapers of the West Bay area of Doha, Qatar from the dhow Bu Muheer while cruising Doha Bay.
This was a very challenging photo to process and I'm not satisfied with the result.
The common puffball grows in fields, gardens, and along roadsides, as well as in grassy clearings in woods. A saprobic species, Lycoperdon perlatum grows solitarily, scattered, or in groups or clusters on the ground. It can also grow in fairy rings.
A widespread species with an almost cosmopolitan distribution, it has been reported from Africa (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania), Asia (China, Himalayas, Japan, southern India, Iran), Australia, Europe, New Zealand, and South America (Brazil). It has been collected from subarctic areas of Greenland, and subalpine regions in Iceland. In North America, where it is considered the most common puffball species, it ranges from Alaska to Mexico, although it is less common in Central America. The species is popular on postage stamps, and has been depicted on stamps from Guinea, Paraguay, Romania, Sierra Leone, and Sweden.
The puffball bioaccumulates heavy metals present in the soil, and can be used as a bioindicator of soil pollution by heavy metals and selenium. In one 1977 study, samples collected from grassy areas near the side of an interstate highway in Connecticut were shown to have high concentrations of cadmium and lead. L. perlatum biomass has been shown experimentally to remove mercury ions from aqueous solutions, and is being investigated for potential use as a low-cost, renewable, biosorptive material in the treatment of water and wastewater containing mercury.
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